When I draw a 2 point arc in sketch up pro the arc does not show up.
How do I draw a point arc and make it display in the 2D drawing
Show us what you are modeling.
What radius is the arc you’re trying to draw?
Not sure how to show you???
Two lines intersecting at less than 90 deg and I want to round the point. I use 2 point arc and get it to contact at tangents but the arc does not show?
Share the .skp file with us.
What’s the radius of the arc you are trying to draw?
The radius was too small. I blew it up and it worked like normal.
thank you!
The radius was approx 0.07"
How do I attach a file to this?
Yes. That’s way too small. What are you modeling that needs a radiused corner of 0.07 inch?
Drag the .skp file into the reply window.
There is a detail of the with siding, and I wanted it to look realistic.
I don’t use 3 d and realize I would probably save a ton of time if I did.
2025 Garage plan.skp (3.6 MB
How realistic do you really need it to be? If you must draw a tiny arc on the siding profile, you could scale the model up by a factor of 100 or 1000 so the radius isn’t actually too small.
Well, what is the point of using a 3D modeling application if you’re only going to create 2D drawings? There are more appropriate applications for creating 2D drawings.
There are certainly benefits to creating 3D models but if all you are going to do is create details like you show here, you’d be better off using a 2D drawing program.
You would definitely save yourself a lot of time if you were to model the garage in 3D and make scenes to show the plan and elevation views of that model. Suppose the client requests a change to the pitch of the roof. How many places in your model do you have to make that change? There’s five places in this screenshot.
If you had a 3D model there’d only be one place to make the edit.
BTW, it’s kind of strange that your green garage is larger than the blue house.
BTW, I notice incorrect tag usage. ALL edges and faces should be created and remain untagged.
And you should purge unused content regularly.
I agree, just haven’t taken the time to get learn 3D capabilities.
I do tag lines to show hidden or property lines or gas, etc…
The big garage was going to be a residence just had a large three stall garage in front. This is in a lake community, and lots are small with several restrictions.
I do appreciate this forum and the help you guys provide..
Thanks again.
Regards,
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Use tags correctly. Create groups or components to contain the geometry and give the tags to the groups and components.
You should go through the instructional materials at learn.sketchup.com
I could be wrong, but I would hazard a guess that this was imported from a DWG file? Even SketchUp’s own DWG importer puts raw geometry on tags, so you get that problem right out of the gate with an imported file before you’ve even drawn a thing.
You could be right although the tag names don’t give that impression. Even if the geometry inherited the tags from the layers in a DWG file, that should be corrected before doing anything after the import to prevent creating errors in the model.
This did not come from a dwg.
I created the file…
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